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The South African National Museum of Military History in Johannesburg was officially opened by Prime Minister Jan Smuts on 29 August 1947 to preserve the history of South Africa's involvement in the Second World War. In 1975, the museum was renamed from the South African National War Museum and its function changed to include all conflicts that ...
Kensington Museums 360. Victoria & Albert Museum 14, 74, 414, C1. Website. https://www.vam.ac.uk. The Victoria and Albert Museum (abbreviated V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects. [3] It was founded in 1852 and named after Queen ...
Natural History Museum: South Kensington: Kensington and Chelsea: West: Natural history: Also includes the Geological Museum, collections focus is botany, entomology, mineralogy, palaeontology and zoology. Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret: Southwark: Southwark: South East: Medical: 19th-century operating theatre, herb garret and ...
The South African War Memorial is a First World War memorial in Richmond Cemetery in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Designed by architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, the memorial is in the form of a cenotaph, similar to that on Whitehall, also by Lutyens. It was commissioned by the South African Hospital and Comforts Fund Committee to ...
South Kensington is a district just west of Central London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Historically it settled on part of the scattered Middlesex village of Brompton . [ 1 ] Its name was supplanted with the advent of the railways in the late 19th century and the opening (and shutting) and naming of local tube stations. [ 2 ]
Maritz Rebellion. (1914–1915) South Africa. South African Republic. Government victory. Rebellion suppressed. Russian Civil War [ 2] (1918–1920) White Movement.
The total South African casualties during the war was about 18,600 with over 12,452 killed – more than 4,600 in the European theatre alone. The Commonwealth War Graves commission has records of 9457 known South African War dead during World War I. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The British Empire is red on the map, at its zenith in ...
The building of the Geological Museum from 1935, designed by Sir Richard Allison and John Hatton Markham. The museum was reopened by the then Duke of York in July 1935, after the completion of the new building on Exhibition Road in South Kensington two years prior - it had housed the ill-starred World Economic Conference in June 1933, which had brought together the representatives of 66 ...